be a district attorney on the case for over two decades the top prosecutor in new york city was charles hynes in two thousand and thirteen after repeated allegations of prosecutorial misconduct under his watch hines found himself in the tough his reelection campaign of his twenty three years on the job. i think the president has the greatest power of anybody in our society. he has a powerful life and death and the president who doesn't have integrity the prosecutor is going to seek convictions for the sake of convictions when the prosecutor is dangerous we investigate two stories of men trying to clear their names of murder both with cases that are tainted with alleged police and prosecutorial misconduct. tyrone johnson and derek hamilton one working from inside prison the other working from the outside. so we're headed out to new haven connecticut where we're going to meet derek hamilton derek was accused of a murder in brooklyn in one thousand nine hundred one problem is he claims he was in new haven at the time and yet he spent twenty one years in prison for a crime he claims he didn't com

s desk at the end of an era brooklyn district attorney charles hynes who has been in office for more than two decades. and in two thousand and thirteen thompson made history by becoming the first candidate to defeat an incumbent one hundred years. he promised to speed up the wrongful conviction. that thompson will keep his promise. for two decades derek hamilton has been fighting to overturn his guilty verdict for the murder of the fan you'll cash in brooklyn hamilton says he was in connecticut at the time of the murder. come and were headed we go to the hotel for us. tonight for. a reason for the name of the mob without a going away party was actually overkill and it left. the party over the car persona on john were so you had plenty of alibi would let me plenty of family and friends people to. go away. it was that day. kelly turner's derek hamilton strongest alibi witness turner was running a talent agency at the time of the murder and later became in meyer new haven police officer at the time hamilton thought he could help turner with her talent booking business in new york where